October 27, 2010

World Series Preview

The Baseball Notebook, The Baseball Notebook

The World Series starts tonight (8 ET, Fox) in San Francisco. The Notebook has spent the last two days taking both the Texas & San Francisco lineups player-by-player. For this final preview we'll look at how each ties everything together and make a final prediction. As has been the case all year, the Notebook will focus on the ability of an offense to generate baserunners, their power capacity, their starting rotation and the bullpen.

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TAGGED: Texas Rangers, San Francisco Giants, mlb, mlb postseason 2010, World Series 2010

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